Alberto Moravia

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1950
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Woman of Rome

    The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia’s best and best-known novel -- The Woman of Rome. It’s the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who mod...

  • Conjugal Love

    To begin with I’d like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved. --From Conjugal Love When Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his beautiful wife agree to move ...

  • Bitter Honeymoon

  • Three Novels by Alberto Moravia

  • More Roman Tales

  • Two Adolescents

  • Time of Desecration

  • Two Women

    FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beau...

  • Empty Canvas



  • 1934

    Moravia is not simply painting the portrait of an age but also coming to grips through his art with the great questions of all ages - the erotic, love, death, and the purposes of life. 1934 recapitulates the major themes of his art and at the same...

  • The Voyeur

    Edoardo, ex-left-wing militant turned professor of French, is a voyeur of life and love. Family and other problems haunt him, and he discovers that he has been unable to see for looking. By the Italian author of "Erotic Tales", whose books were banne...

  • Roman Tales

  • Journey to Rome

  • The Conformist

    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colle...

  • The Time Of Indifference

    IN 1929, THE FIFTH YEAR of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It was a deceptively simple story - five characters...

  • Boredom

    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pa...

  • Contempt

    Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous -- his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychologica...

  • Two Friends

    In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally ambiguous. Sergio’s young, sensual lover ...

  • Agostino

    Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local you...



  • Shunya Chitrapata

    Alberto Moravia was a major figure in the 20th Century Italian Literature. His novels written on modern sexuality, social self-intimacy, alienation, and existentialism had become the message of neo-realism in European literature. This legendary legen...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alberto Moravia has published 20 books.

Alberto Moravia does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shunya Chitrapata, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome, was published in January 1950.

No. Alberto Moravia does not write books in series.
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